Stamp-affixer and envelop-sealer.



PATENTED MAR. 8, 1904.

E. A. EMMERLING. .STAMP AFFIXER AND ENVBLOP SEALER.

APPLIOATIQN FILED JAN. 12. 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented March 8, 1904.

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STAMP-AFFIXER AND ENVELOP-SEALER.

SIPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,965, dated March 8, 1904. Application filed Jame 12,1903. smart. 138,620. (NomodeL) To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, ERNST A. EMMERLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stamp-Afl ixers and Envelop-Sealers, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to' which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved stamp-affixer device which may also be used as an envelop-sealer; and with this and other objects in view the invention consistsin a device of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the fol lowing specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a front view of my improved stamp-aflixer, and Fig. 2 a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

In the practice of my invention I provide a device of the class specified which comprises a transverse head portion a, which is oblong in form and provided with a central chamber a and the sides of which are inclined inwardly at the bottom, as shown at (0 and the bottom portion of which is open between said inwardly-inclined side portion, as shown at a In the chamber a is placed a sponge or other absorbent substance 6, and the head portion a is provided centrally of the top thereof with a neck [0 with which is connected a handle 0, having a screw-threaded shank 0 adapted to be screwed into said neck, and the sponge 5 may be moistened at any time by removing the handle 0 and pouring water into the cham ber (L The head portion a is provided at its opposite sides with parallel arms d, having forwardly-directed extensions 6Z and mounted between the arms 03 is a roller 6, and another roller f is mounted in the extension d of the arms d, and the shaft f of the roller f passes at each end through longitudinal slots g, formed in the extensions 03 of the arms d,

and between the inner'ends of which and the said shaft f are placed springs g the object of these springs being, to force the roller f downwardly and outwardly.

Secured to the front of the bottom portion of the head aand centrally thereof is a springarm 2', this connection being made at 2", and the arm 2' is segmental in form, or substantially so, and is provided with an inwardlydirected projection i ,-which is directed between the rollers e and f and adjacent to-the roller as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and said arm is also provided with a segmental extension 6*, which curves outwardly and downwardly and around the front portion of the roller f and the end 2' of which is closely adjacent to the front bottom portion of said roller. The rollers e'and f may be made of any desired material, and it will be understood that the roller 6 is moistened by the sponge Z), or this operation of moistening the roller 6 may be performed in any desired manner by meansof any suitable material or device placed within the head a, and in the operation of applying a stamp the roller eis turned while the surface thereof is moistened, and this operation may be performed by simply pressing said roller or the back thereof on any surface and moving the device forward. The stamp is then passed between the rollers e and f, as indicated by the arrow at, the gummed side thereof being adjacent to the roller 6. In this operation the roller f is pressed on the surface of the envelop to which it is desired to apply'the stamp, and as the stamp passes between the rollers e and f the front edge thereof is turned downwardly around the roller f by the extension 6' of the arm 71, and the said stamp passes on and is pressed onto the envelop by 1 stamp, which is caught between the rollers e and f and carried through and applied to the envelop, as hereinbefore described. In the operation of sealing an envelop the roller eis passed over the gummed surface of the flap of the envelop, and the flap is then turned over in the usual manner and is pressed onto the back of the envelop in the usual manner or by the roller f. The drawings forming part of this specification are made on a much enlarged scale and in practice the rollers e and f will be made of such size that the front end of said stamp as it passes through the rollers e and f will be applied to the envelop before the other end of said stamp is fully passed between said rollers, and the. object of the extension 71* of the arm is to aid in curving the stamp around the roller f and applying it in proper position to the envelop.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A device of the class described comprising a head portion having an internal chamber open at the bottom, parallel arms connected with said head portion and provided with forwardly-directed extensions, a roller mounted between said arms and movable adjacent to said opening, another roller mounted between the extensions of said arms and adapted to operate in connection with the firstnamed r Her, and a curved spring-arm secured to said head at the front thereof and provided with an inwardly-directed member adjacent to the bottom front portion of the first-named roller and a segmentally-curved end portion which passes partially around the last-named roller, said last-named roller being provided with spring-bearings by which it is normally separated from the first named roller, substantially as shown and described.

2. A device of the class described comprising a head portion'having an internal chamber open at the bottom, parallel arms connected with said head portion and provided with forwardly-directed extensions, a roller mounted between said arms and movable adjacent to said opening another roller mounted J. (J. LARSEN, T. A. STEWART. 

